Tom Friedman on the need to wind down our engagement, on the simple grounds that every time something wonderful happens in the Islamic world, it happens in spite of our assistance, not because of it. I find this interesting,, because Friedman's one of the biggest Iraq hawks around - but he even says the '06 surge was only successful because of a pre-existing internal desire to stamp out al Qaeda in Iraq.
Nick Kristof making the point that for the cost of 40,000 additional troops, you could instead build thousands of schools. After all, the Islamic extremists are building schools...
Glenn Greenwald pointing out an Op-Ed from 2006, written by a former Russian soldier who was stationed in Afghanistan. I won't summarize - this one you've got to read for yourself.
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